Obama DHS Secretary Shocks Fox & Friends By Insisting It’s ‘Obvious’ Kamala Harris Would Be ‘Tougher On the Border’ Than Trump
Former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson left the Fox & Friends curvy couch gobsmacked by his insistence that, if elected, Vice President Kamala Harris would be tougher on the border than former President Donald Trump.
Johnson is a semifrequent guest on Fox & Friends, whose visit almost always elicits a fascinating and respectful conversation (increasingly rare in the current cable news landscape). Before this interview, Fox aired a clip of Harris being asked during CNN’s recent town hall about her administration’s executive order on the border, to which she replied, “I think we did the right thing. But the best thing that can happen for the American people is that we have bipartisan work happening.”
After playing some predictable mockery of that comment by Trump, Ainsley Earhardt asked Johnson, “What is your reaction when you hear Kamala Harris saying that they did a good job and they take credit for a superb job on the border?”
Johnson replied: “I’ll start with this. Everyone keeps asking Kamala Harris, what would you do differently from Joe Biden? She won’t quite say this, but I will. I believe that she will be tougher on the border. She will be tougher on border security. Why do you say that? As a former prosecutor and a former law enforcement officer, she is fundamentally a law enforcement officer. That’s how she spent most of her career; I believe she would be tougher on border security.”
“But the problem is she got this job right away on some level,” Brian Kilmeade pushed back. “And this is the first visit walking with Donald Trump in a while. If she cared about the job, even if she did badly, I would say it’s not my policy. I’m only vice president. She would have been there. Mr. Secretary.”
“Well, as the person who owned this issue, this problem has been going on for 37 months. Border security is more than just a photo op at the border,” Johnson replied. What followed was a thoughtful and detailed analysis of the short-term and long-term issues that the United States faces with an immigration problem that, as Johnson explained, has been an issue for decades.
Kilmeade mocked Harris for her run as so-called border czar and showed fluency on details of a complicated issue. But Johnson pushed right back, saying, “In fact, she worked to raise two public-private partnerships, hundreds of millions of dollars for Central America that is in effect. Now. We need to continue to do a whole lot more than that. And she will be tougher on border security. That’s, I believe, pretty obvious.”
As I said, it was a rare segment in today’s cable news landscape: ideologically different participants engaging in a respectful dialogue that informed viewers in a manner they typically aren’t.
Watch above via Fox News.
